Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

Wikimedia Commons/Richmond Compiler The Creole Rebellion of 1841 The Creole was just another slave ship crossing the Atlantic in November 1841, carrying human cargo to Southern markets. Then Madison ...

When historians and the public think about the end of domestic slavery in west Africa, they often imagine colonial governors issuing decrees and missionaries working to end local traffic in enslaved ...

For historian Charles Perkins, Waco and McLennan County’s 11 post-Civil War freedom colonies, and the 28 churches that grew ...

The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court struck down a colonial-era law in St. Lucia that criminalized gay sex in a ruling Tuesday celebrated by activists in the largely conservative region.

In 1775, Britain was at its height of global power, with its colonies spread across the globe, including the American ...

Juneteenth is a better, and more historically significant, holiday than some others we celebrate in the United States, like ...